New Discovery and Exploration Methods of Porphyry and Epithermal Mineral Deposits

Dear Colleagues,

As one of the most valuable deposit types, porphyry deposits are of great interest to both industry and academia. Porphyry deposits and their genetically and spatially correlated epithermal deposits are common topics of exploration and genesis research, representing one of the most deeply understood deposit types. However, new discoveries and insights into its formation and exploration emerge relatively frequently, which improve our understanding of porphyry deposits while providing better exploration strategies for new exploration campaigns. To keep the industry and academia updated with knowledge of recent discoveries and progress in metallogeny and exploration methods of porphyry and epithermal deposits, we are organizing a Special Issue to disseminate knowledge about the geology, geochronology, hydrothermal process, indicator minerals, geochemistry, geophysics, and spectroscopy of porphyry and epithermal deposits. Topics of interest for this Special Issue of Minerals, “New Discovery and Exploration Methods of Porphyry and Epithermal Deposits”, include but are not limited to the following:

1. Geology of recently discovered porphyry and/or epithermal deposits;
2. Formation processes of porphyry and epithermal deposits;
3. New exploration tools for porphyry and epithermal deposits.

Dr. Chao Yang
Dr. Yiwei Peng
Dr. Gangyang Zhang
Guest Editors

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• porphyry
• epithermal
• formation
• geology
• exploration

1. Title: Petrographic and EPMA studies of major sulfide phases from the Cu-porphyry, Cu-Zn skarn and polymetallic carbonate-replacement mineralization at the Recsk porphyry mineralized complex, Hungary
Authors: Máté Biró, Monika Feichter, Johann G. Raith, Máté Hencz, Gabriella B. Kiss, Ferenc Molnár

2. Title: Tectono-Metallogenic Evolution of Eocene Cu-W-Mo±Au Porphyry/Skarn Mineralizations around Uludağ: Implications for Source, Geochronology, and Tectonic Setting
Authors: Huseyin Kocaturk et al.

3. Title: An Archean porphyry-type deposit: Cu-Au mineralization associated with the Chibougamau tonalite-diorite pluton, Abitibi greenstone belt, Canada
Authors: Daniel Kontak et al.

4. Title: Alteration lithogeochemistry of an Archean intrusion-related Au(-Cu) deposit: The Côté Gold deposit, Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Ontario
Authors: Daniel Kontak et al.

5. Title: Geology, petrology and geochronology of the Late Cretaceous Klaza epithermal deposit: A window into the petrogenesis of an emerging porphyry belt in the Dawson Range, Yukon, Canada
Authors: Daniel Kontak et al.

6. Title: Evaluating granite fertility utilizing porphyry indicator minerals and geochemical data: a case study from an emerging metallogenic province in the Taimyr Peninsula, Russian High Arctic
Authors: Berzin S.V., Konopelko D.L., Petrov S.V., Proskurnin V.F., Berzon E.I., Kurapov M.Yu., Golovina T.A., Chernenko N.Ya., Chervyakovskiy V.S. Palamarchuk R.S.

7. Title: The Paleoproterozoic Raimunda porphyry-type gold deposit, Juruena Mineral Province, Amazonian Craton (Brazil): constraints based on petrological, fluid inclusion and stable isotope data
Authors: Lopes, Adriana A.C.; Moura, Marcia A.

8. Title: Geochronology, geochemistry and zircon Hf isotopic composition of ore-bearing volcanic rocks at Lazong Ag-Pb-Zn deposit, southern Tibet, China: Petrogenetic, metallogenic and tectonic implications
Authors: Leng Qiufeng, Cao Huawen, Zhang Tengjiao, Zhu Sibao

9. Title: Apatite and zircon geochemistry deciphers difference in the nature of ore-forming magma at the Bangpu porphyry Mo-Cu deposit, Tibet
Authors: Pan Tang, Juxing Tang, Liqiang Wang, Bin Lin, Faqiao Li, Jing Qi, Mengdie Wang, Yan Xiong, Jinlin Xie and Gang Tao

10. Title: Geochronology and geochemical characteristics of gneissic granite in Nanwenhe Skarn type tungsten deposit, Yunnan
Authors: Zhang gangyang et al.

11. Title: Detrital chalcopyrite geochemistry as a tool for exploration of porphyry deposits: a case study in Duolong district, Tibet
Authors: Chao Li, Chao Yang, Tingting Wang, Qin Wang

12. Title: Ore genesis of the Tawuerbieke gold deposit, Western Tianshan, NW China: Evidence from the texture, compositions and S-Pb isotopes of sulphides
Authors: Yiwei Peng et al.